Basilica of Saint Nicholas

This guide to the Basilica of Saint Nicholas in Amsterdam traces Amsterdam's Catholics back to 1578, when the city's churches were seized and worship was pushed into hiding inside a canal house for over two centuries. It follows architect Adrianus Bleijs, who designed this neo-Baroque basilica by the harbour in the 1880s as a monument fit for the city's patron of sailors, and Jan Dunselman, who spent nearly forty years painting the walls around you. Look up at the fifty-eight-metre dome while you listen.